Questão
Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná - UENP
2011
Fase Única
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Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was a great Italian scientist, mathematician and astronomer. He was born in 1564 in Pisa and was sent to school at the Monastery of Vallombrosa, near Florence. He had many gifts and became a good musician as well as an amateur painter. It was only later that he became interested in Science and Mathematics.

It was from the top of the Pisa Tower that Galileo determined the velocity of falling objects: all objects fall at the same speed, whatever their mass. Previously people had thought that heavy objects fell to Earth more quickly than light ones.

From People Magazine

What was one of Galileo’s most important contribution to the Science?
A
He determined that heavy objects fall to Earth as the same speed as the light ones.
B
He determined the velocity of light objects.
C
He determined that heavy objects fall to Earth more quickly than the light ones.
D
He determined the velocity of heavy objects.
E
He determined that heavy objects have the same mass of the light ones whatever their velocity.